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Quotations by Subject: History (17 quotes)

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Want of foresight, unwillingness to act when action would be simple and effective, lack of clear thinking, confusion of counsel until the emergency comes, until self-preservation strikes its jarring gong-these are the features which constitute the endless repetition of history.: Sir Winston Churchill (1874 - 1965), Speech, House of Commons, May 2, 1935
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Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.: H. G. Wells (1866 - 1946), The Outline of History, vol.2, chapter 41, 1921
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The history of liberty is the history of resistance. The history of liberty is a history of the limitation of governmental power, not the increase of it.: Woodrow Wilson (1856 - 1924), Address to the New York Press Club, September 9, 1912
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Peace is an unstable equilibrium, which can be preserved only by acknowledged supremacy or equal power.: Will Durant and Arial Durant, The Lessons of History, Chapter 11, 1968
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The history of the world is but the biography of great men.: Thomas Carlyle (1795 - 1881)
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Liberty has never come from the government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of it. The history of liberty is the history of resistance. The history of liberty is a history of limitations of governmental power, not the increase of it.: Woodrow Wilson (1856 - 1924), Speech, New York, September 9, 1912
That is the supreme value of history. The study of it is the best guarantee against repeating it.: John Buchan, Baron Tweedsmuir
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My publisher told me that the number of readers of this book will be inversely proportional to the number of equations it contains.: Stephen Hawking (1942 - ), A Brief History of Time, 1988
The history of man is a graveyard of great cultures that came to catastrophic ends because of their incapacity for planned, rational, voluntary reaction to challenge.: Erich Fromm (1900 - 1980)
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I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.: Thomas Jefferson (1743 - 1826)
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